World Quotes - Page 989

In some cases, the measured use of force is all that protects us from a chaotic world ruled by force.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

...(O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

I work all over the world. I have a very, very full life.

[Donald Trump] borrows money from all kinds of people around the world, including more than $100 million from a German bank now under federal investigation.

We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

One real world is enough.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

In this world, only winter is certain